Addiction and therapy

DSM-V broke new ground in May of 2013, designating a new disorder called "e;behavioral addiction.

A psychiatrist examines how the world's four most important mind-altering substances- alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates-have played a significant role throughout human history, and explains how these powerful drugs affect the brain and cause addiction.

Grief Work in Addictions Counseling is a book for practitioners and students in the field of substance abuse counseling who encounter grief and loss issues with clients recovering from addiction.

The misuse of both legally prescribed and illegally supplied drugs is now so widespread that it affects, either directly or indirectly, a high proportion of the population, impacting many areas of daily life.

People have been using tobacco in a variety of forms for centuries.

This is the first book to thoroughly examine how early and easy access to the Internet and digital technologies impacts children and adolescents.

This invaluable text provides a rigorous guide to the assessment and evaluation of treatment programs through a multi-disciplinary, holistic model of care.

In the pursuit of more muscle, enhanced strength, sustained endurance and idealised physiques, an increasing number of elite athletes, recreational sport enthusiasts and body-conscious gym-users are turning to performance and image enhancing drugs and substances (PIEDS).

This book examines how you can identify, assess, and treat Internet addiction in the most effective manner.

With 75% new material, the fully revised third edition of this clinical reference and text describes ways to integrate motivational interviewing (MI) into evidence-based psychotherapy and counseling.

Viele Raucher haben den Wunsch, das Rauchen aufzugeben, da sie die negativen Folgen nicht länger riskieren wollen.

This book has been replaced by Introduction to Addictive Behaviors, Fifth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3922-2.

Through Homelessness Prevention in Treatment of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness: Logic Models and Implementation of Eight American Projects, psychiatrist, psychologists, and social workers will discover the results of eight, three-year long development projects funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) designed to prevent homelessness in high- risk populations who have problems with alcoholism, drug abuse, and/or mental illness.

Since 1960, the burden of adolescent illness has shifted from the traditional causes of disease to the more behavior-related problems, such as drinking, smoking and drug abuse (nearly half of American adolescents have used an illicit drug sometime during their life).

Global Perspectives of Employee Assistance Programs is the first book of its kind to empirically address the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) concept and model in a diverse, global context.

Martha Sweezy and Ellen L.

Die Neubearbeitung des Buches liefert einen praxisorientierten Leitfaden für die ambulante und stationäre Behandlung von Patienten mit einer Alkoholabhängigkeit.

In most countries, problematic drug use is dealt with primarily as a criminal justice issue, rather than a health issue.

A highly readable and practical guide for anyone treating or caring for someone with an alcohol problem.

This timesaving resource features: Treatment plan components for 25 behaviorally based presenting problems Over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventions plus space to record your own treatment plan options A step-by-step guide to writing treatment plans that meet the requirements of most insurance companies and third-party payors The Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment Planner provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payors, and state and federal review agencies.

Dual Disorders: Essentials for Assessment and Treatment is a practical handbook for the assessment and clinical management of patients with addiction and psychiatric disorders.

Here is a comprehensive review of adolescent substance abuse issues and an expansive, empirically based curriculum for school-based programs to teach adolescents about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.

NPR Best Book of 2019A bioethicists eloquent and riveting memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawala harrowing personal reckoning and clarion call for change not only for government but medicine itself, revealing the lack of crucial resources and structures to handle this insidious nationwide epidemic.

As pressure grows on care managers and staff to work with ever more complex needs, this book is a timely account of how introducing the Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE) principles into a care home will improve work practice and outcomes for residents.

This book introduces the Recovery Cycle, the only relatable model for positive change in sobriety and a simple roadmap for sober living.

Raise your organization's productivity and morale with the proper EAPs!

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has become a useful treatment for a range of clinical problems and is no longer limited to the treatment of suicidal behaviors or borderline personality disorder.

Women, Girls, and Addiction is the first book on the efficacy of treatment approaches and interventions that are tailored to working with addicted women, and the first publication of any kind to provide a feminist approach to understanding addiction from the female perspective.

Auf der Basis aktueller Erkenntnisse aus Forschung und Praxis liefert das vorliegende Manual einen Leitfaden und Instrumente für die kognitive Verhaltenstherapie von Kokainabhängigen.

Companionship for the lifelong journey of recoveryIn Addiction and Recovery: A Spiritual Pilgrimage, Martha Postlethwaite--pastor and a person in recovery--reflects on her pilgrimage of healing through valleys of despair and vistas of resurrection.

Here is a detailed description of an innovative approach for treating elderly persons who have alcohol or drug problems.

Experts address the role of neuromodulators and opiate receptors in alcohol and drug dependence.

Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as 'dangerous drugs', to be controlled by the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others - from alcohol and tobacco, through to those we call 'medicines' - are seen and regulated very differently?

Childhood and Chemical Abuse highlights the most recent prevention and intervention strategies for fighting substance abuse among children and adolescents.

The essential newly-expanded reference that needs to be on the desk of every health care professional who encounters substance abusers.

Women's Conflicts About Eating and Sexuality explores the strong relationships food and sex have represented to women over the years.

A blend of theory and counseling techniques, this comprehensive text provides readers with an overview of several major counseling theories and their application to substance use disorders and addiction counseling, along with related techniques and interventions.

Substance use and related addictive disorders rate amongst the top four risk factors contributing to the global burden of disease and form an increasingly important part of medical and healthcare practice.

This insightful volume describes a sample of prevention demonstration projects of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP).

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the social and technological context from which eHealth applications have arisen, the psychological principles on which they are based, and the key development and evaluation issues relevant to their successful intervention.

This book explains the rationale for changes in the DSM-5(R) related to incorporating behavioral addictions alongside substance use disorders; it also illuminates the significance of including the construct of behavioral addictions in this widely used psychiatric diagnostic manual.

The concept of sexual addiction has gained increasing recognition in the academic and healthcare communities since the 1990s.

Co-dependency has finally become recognized in the late 1980s as a legitimate and a key issue in the chemical dependency field.

Is addiction a disease, a sin, a sign of hypersensitivity, a personal failing, or a unique resource for the creative mind?

All of the requisite forms addiction treatment professionals need a crucial time-saver in today's healthcare system Treating addiction in today's healthcare environment means that mental health professionals must manage an imposing amount of paperwork.

How far should counselling be tailored to an individual's needs?

Alcohol is the most widely used drug in the world, yet alcoholism remains a serious addiction affecting nearly 20 million Americans.

Bringing together scholars from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, this multidisciplinary Handbook offers a comprehensive critical overview of intoxicants and intoxication.

Alkohol, Nicotin, Medikamente, illegale Drogen: Weshalb werden manche Menschen süchtig, andere nicht?

Since 1992, marijuana use among 8th graders has tripled, among 10th graders it has nearly doubled, and its use among high school seniors has increased by 50 percent.